Healthcare delivery system

Abstract

A healthcare delivery system that embodies methods of empowering collaborative multidisciplinary healthcare and the clinics that support them for providing everyday care to patients with chronic conditions, through in part by eliminating the current referral system to multiple specialists and providing collaborative multidisciplinary healthcare. A healthcare delivery that upends the traditional model where primary care physician, who has an essentially blind first visit with a patient, tries to develop plan of coordinated care in a very fragmented manner by referring patient to multiple specialist as needed. The present invention takes an unconventional ordering of combined steps to deliver improved healthcare drastically different from the traditional model.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application claims the benefit of priority of U.S. provisional application No. 62 / 238,992, filed Oct. 8, 2015, the contents of which are herein incorporated by reference. This Continuation-in-part application claims the benefit of priority of U.S. non-provisional application Ser. No. 15 / 281,456, filed Sep. 30, 2016, the contents of which are herein incorporated by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates to healthcare delivery systems and, more particularly, a healthcare delivery system that embodies methods of empowering collaborative multidisciplinary healthcare for providing care to patients with chronic conditions.[0003]Healthcare spending in the U.S. is about 90% higher per capita than in most other industrial countries. The rising cost of health care is unsustainable. In 2010, healthcare costs consumed approximately 25% of budgets in the education sector and is expected to increase to over 40% by ...

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Benefits of technology

[0034]In yet another aspect of the present invention, the method of improving delivering healthcare services to patients with chronic conditions through a pre-existing and newly developed clinic that implements a new model of collaborative multidisciplinary healthcare, includes the following: the plurality of physician specialists determined as an immunologist, an infectious disease specialist, a cardiologist, an endocrinologist and a gastroenterologist; including a novel approach to standard laboratory testing for patient with chronic condition and standard equipment provided in clinic that allows comprehensive functional evaluation of individual patient immune, and inflammatory responses in patients. Our testing equipment was chosen to correlate with the fields of expertise of practicing physicians. The present invention includes introduction of new paradigm to primary care—everyday care that the patient's body is seen by multiple specialist as a representation of a “meta-organism,” a complex, intercommunicating system of trillions of bacterial cells that coexist with a roughly equal number of human cells in the body. The present invention includes a signature medical history describing a patient from said pre-existing clinic and combining it with novel immune, inflammatory and microbiome personalized data. The present invention includes calculating a risk score related to primary, secondary, and tertiary preventive care a

Problems solved by technology

The rising cost of health care is unsustainable.

This suggests some substantial communication problems within the subsystem navigated by PCMH.

A lack of clarity on the respective roles of PCP's and specialists undoubtedly may contribute to coordination issues among specialists and PCP's.

Thus, significant fragmentation of care exists for patients with any chronic conditions, especially for patients with multiple chronic conditions.

Moreover, shrinking access to specialists within each insurance network leaves significant gaps and creates barriers to care delivery even with the best primary care coordination.

The shortage of primary care physicians makes it more difficult for special populations, like full-time employees or patients with multiple chronic conditions, to access primary, secondary or tertiary services.

The traditional fee-for-service system lacks efficiency and causes a lot of frustration not only to patients but also to practicing physicians.

Further compounding the problem, the shortage of primary care physicians makes it more difficult for special populations, like full-time employees or patients with multiple chronic conditions, to access primary or secondary preventive services.

The cost of care for patients with chronic conditions is higher than the general population with differences in quality of care stemming from gender and racial differences.

Patients with chronic conditions spend more for healthcare and experience more hardship with paying medical bills while physicians taking care of patients with chronic conditions believe that the needs of these patients are not being met and physicians report difficulties in coordinating care of patients with chronic conditions.

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